Results 1-20 of 192 for drugs speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...we as politicians, who enforce the law of the land, and those involved in different State agencies are doing enough to try to protect vulnerable people, whether it is those caught up with alcohol or drug abuse, or children. We hear of awful cases where parents have subjected their children to abuse for profit. We read about such cases in local newspapers, where mums and dads have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance the real efforts that are being made to curtail the awful practice of smuggling drugs into Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 378. To ask the Minister for Health if the prescribing of a drug (details supplied) is correct practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30400/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (9 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when legislation will be enacted to ensure that drug testing takes place at the scene of a road traffic accident (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21109/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20390/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...are, in themselves, addictive. We have taken every type of measure to stop people smoking, we have tried to stop people from over-indulging in alcohol and there is a continuous war on illegal drugs. It will have to be agreed by all of us that, having listened to the excellent presentation, we are not doing enough in the war, as I would call it, on sugary and fatty foods, addictive...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Rural Independent Group welcomes the opportunity to speak about the new Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use which has been established by the Government. While it is due to start in April and conclude before the end of the year, I argue against its formation and for why we think it is a waste of time and money. First, drug use has a significant impact on society, imposing significant health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will provide persons with access to a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6319/23]

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...they are guilty of doing their job. It is a respectable job, the operation of reporting on what is happening and letting us see. Nine journalists died in Mexico obviously because of the serious drug problem there and the fact that the drug cartels believe they can do whatever they wish. The authorities in Mexico seem completely incapable or worse, unwilling, to do anything about this....

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...or sergeants, we have to ensure we have enough of a hierarchy in those locations and that we adequately resource them to ensure that law and order can be maintained and that people can feel safe. We have a drug problem in Ireland that is running rampant and that causes awful problems for the Garda, and not just in our towns but in smaller areas also. In trying to steer young people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 652. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that Cariban is not on the drug payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24186/22]

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and giving us the first formal opportunity to discuss on the record of the Dáil the proposed criminalisation of the sale of turf for supply. One would swear to God it was some sort of an illegal drug the way we are talking about it. I never thought the sale and supply of turf would come to this. I would like the Minister to look around him. He was very welcome to Kerry this...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...number of issues coming up that would be of focused interest to the assemblies include biodiversity, local government, the directly elected mayor for Dublin, local government structures for Dublin, drug use, which is an important issue, and the future of education. When we talk about assemblies, we have to be fair, frank, honest and open. How can the Dáil and the public be certain...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests that were made of persons who were under 18 years of age by the category of the arrest, for example, possession of drugs and so on, by county in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5644/22]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I sincerely thank the Taoiseach, the Minister for Health and the Government for last week listening to a plea that I started and others joined, asking the Government to approve the funding for the drug Zolgensma, to help two little children who are very ill, one of those children being Theo Whelan from County Kerry. It would be very wrong and very neglectful of me not to publicly thank...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Tánaiste, the Minister for Health, the Department of Health and the HSE listen because it is a very important matter. I appeal to the Government to ask that the HSE approve payment for a miracle drug that will help save the lives of two children who are very ill. I am speaking on behalf of, and with the permission of, Lorraine and Daniel Mynard and their daughter, Kate, and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a life-saving treatment. That is the difference. Time is of the essence. I have already stated, and I will say just once more, that two years is the cut-off point for these children. If the drug is not administered in their first two years of life, their hopes and their aspirations to have a better quality of life will be very much diminished. We do not want to see that happen with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 1672. To ask the Minister for Health if permission for the use of a drug will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34886/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) and the provision of a drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23839/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 938. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug dupilumab will be made available here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1133/21]